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ClosedStage · contract

Uk Intellectual Property Office

Online Storage requirement

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£287k
Deadline7 Dec 2016
Published23 Feb 2017
RegionWales
Timeline
Published 23 Feb 2017ClosedCloses 7 Dec 2016
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£287ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

The Intellectual Property Office currently utilise an IBM V7000 SAN hosted over two sites.

It is used to host our virtual estate of servers, Desktops and Networking devices.

Support costs have grown exponentially over the last two years.

Due to this, the IPO has decided to replace this ageing technology with newer, more efficient SAN.

The scope for this tender will include:- i.

Procurement, installation and configuration of the SAN; ii.

Proposals must include hardware/software support for the next three (3) years; and iii.

Proposals must include an option for another 150tb of storage on the primary site for backups.

Proposals will NOT include data migration.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Support costs have grown exponentially over

Support costs have grown exponentially over the last two years.

02

Proposals must include hardware/software support for

Proposals must include hardware/software support for the next three (3) years; and.

03

Proposals must include an option for another

Proposals must include an option for another 150tb of storage on the primary site for backups.

04

Proposals will NOT include data migration

Proposals will NOT include data migration.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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IT-2016-092
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